Flageolet
about 1835 (Made)
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| Place of origin |
The French flageolet had four finger- and two thumb-holes, and was also known as the 'Quadrille Flageolet', after a popular dance developed in France in the early 1800s. This example is stamped T.Prowse, Hanway Street, and was made by Thomas Prowse, Junior (active 1834-1868), who specialized in wind instruments and traded from 13 Hanway Street, London, from 1834. In the same year his brother Joseph took over the shop of their father, Thomas Prowse Senior, in Old Jewry, London.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Turned and bored boxwood |
| Brief description | French flageolet, boxwood, by Thomas Prowse, junior, London, about 1835. |
| Physical description | 'Boxwood in one piece with slightly tapering bore. No keys. Pitch A.' Anthony Baines, Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard instruments(London, 1998), p. 89. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | T.Prowse/ Hanway Street/ London (The inscription is stamped above the top bore (finger hole)) |
| Object history | This instrument was purchased by the Museum for 3 shillings (£0.15p) in 1882. It had been part of the collections of Carl Engel (1818-1882), an eminent musicologist from Hanover, who published the Descriptive Catalogue of the Musical Instruments in the South Kensington Museum in 1874. The South Kensington Museum has been known as the Victoria & Albert Museum since 1899. |
| Summary | The French flageolet had four finger- and two thumb-holes, and was also known as the 'Quadrille Flageolet', after a popular dance developed in France in the early 1800s. This example is stamped T.Prowse, Hanway Street, and was made by Thomas Prowse, Junior (active 1834-1868), who specialized in wind instruments and traded from 13 Hanway Street, London, from 1834. In the same year his brother Joseph took over the shop of their father, Thomas Prowse Senior, in Old Jewry, London. |
| Bibliographic reference | Anthony Baines: Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard instruments. (London, 1998), p. 89. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 290-1882 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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